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TIL the man that deposed the Jin Dynasty and founded the Liu Song Dynasty was a descendant of the Han Dynasty (which was deposed two centuries earlier by Cao Wei, Jin’s predecessor)

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BLke TiL: In one season of the Dutch version of “Survivor,” the men and women were split and given their own islands. At the end of 8 days, the men had a “Cafe on the beach,” while the women were stealing from each other and had not yet built a hut; the women approved of a tribe merger.
woA9J TIL Wagner Dodge escaped the Mann Gulch fire by lighting an "escape fire" in front of him and laying down on the now dead grass so the main fire could not engulf him.
KYVZa (TIL) James Cameron (Avatar, Titanic, Piranha 2) directed a video for a band Bill Paxton was in featuring the cast from Aliens and Near Dark!
mx65O TIL the brains of long-term drug users "forget" how to produce dopamine naturally because the drugs have been producing it instead. In some cases, natural production never goes back to normal, even after long-term sobriety.
awwvA TIL that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that tomatoes are vegetables, despite the botanical fact that tomatoes are fruits